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About figlet (Frank, Ian & Glenn's Letters) release 2.0, August 9, 1993
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figlet is a program that creates large characters out of ordinary
screen characters. figlet can create characters in many different
styles and can "smush" these characters together in various ways.
figlet output is generally reminiscent of the sort of "signatures" many
people like to put at the end of e-mail and UseNet messages. Some
example figlet output is given below.
If you like figlet (hey, even if you _hate_ figlet), please send an
e-mail message to spectre@uiuc.edu or figlet@uiuc.edu.
[Note: Apple IIGS GNO users having no "C" compiler can contact Jawaid
Bazyar at <bazyar@csn.org> for a pre-compiled GNO version of figlet.]
Files
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README -- This file.
figlet.exe -- The figlet MS-DOS executable.
figlet.man -- Formatted (ascii) version of the man page.
<xxx>.flf -- All files ending in ".flf" are figlet font files.
Using figlet
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At the shell prompt, type "figlet". Then type, say, "Hello, world!"
and press return. "Hello, world!" in nice, big, designer characters
should appear on your screen. If you chose standard.flf to be the
default font, you should see
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
| | | | ___| | | ___ __ _____ _ __| | __| | |
| |_| |/ _ \ | |/ _ \ \ \ /\ / / _ \| '__| |/ _` | |
| _ | __/ | | (_) | \ V V / (_) | | | | (_| |_|
|_| |_|\___|_|_|\___( ) \_/\_/ \___/|_| |_|\__,_(_)
|/
(By the way, the above is meant to be diplayed in a monospaced font.)
Then type something else, or type an EOF (control-Z in MS-DOS) to quit
figlet.
Now you can send the output of figlet to a file (e.g., "figlet > file")
and e-mail it to your friends (who will probably say, "Wow! It must
have taken you hours to put that together!")
To use other fonts, use the "-f" command line option. For example, if
you had said "figlet -f smslant" above, you would have seen
__ __ ____ __ ____
/ /_/ /__ / / /__ _ _____ ____/ /__/ / /
/ __ / -_) / / _ \_ | |/|/ / _ \/ __/ / _ /_/
/_/ /_/\__/_/_/\___( ) |__,__/\___/_/ /_/\_,_(_)
|/
Here are some other useful command line options:
-c center -- centers the output of figlet.
-t terminal -- figlet asks your terminal how wide it is, and uses
this to determine when to break lines. Normally, figlet assumes
80 columns so that people with wide terminals won't annoy the
people they e-mail figlet output to.
-D Deutsch -- switches to the German character set. Turns `[', `\'
and `]' to umlauted A, O and U, respectively. `{', `|' and `}'
turn into the respective lower case versions of these. `~' turns
into s-z.
-p paragraph mode -- eliminates some spurious line breaks when piping
a multi-line file through figlet.
-F Fonts -- lists the available figlet fonts
(not available in the MS-DOS version, use dir instead)
-v version -- prints information about your copy of figlet.
For in-depth explanations of these and other otions, see the man page.
Authors
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figlet was written mostly by Glenn Chappell <ggc@uiuc.edu>. The
author not being an e-mail fanatic, most correspondence (bug reports,
rave reviews, etc.) should be directed to his secretary (who is
definitely an e-mail fanatic), Ian Chai <spectre@uiuc.edu> (or
figlet@uiuc.edu).